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Valero recently reported its 2025 results and are proud to highlight some of the major accomplishments of its team over the year.
Last year, the company achieved the best year for personnel safety and environmental performance in its history, building on personnel and process safety records it set in 2024. Valero’s continued commitment to safe, reliable and environmentally responsible operations resulted in record refining throughput and record ethanol production. Valero also set a new company record for mechanical reliability. These achievements supported strong financial results for the year, reinforcing the company’s consistent track record of operational and commercial excellence.
Valero continues to advance strategic projects, including an optimization project at its St. Charles refinery in Louisiana, that will increase the yield of high-value products. Valero expects the project to begin operations in the second half of 2026.
Last year, institutional investors selected Valero as one of the “Most Honored Companies“ for the tenth consecutive year. Valero was chosen from a pool of over 1,400 companies across 44 sectors. In addition, Valero was honored at the S&P Platts Global Energy Awards with the “Commercial Technology of the Year“ award for the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) project at its Port Arthur, Texas Diamond Green Diesel Plant.
Valero’s commitment to being good neighbors also remained as strong as ever. Valero and its employees set an all-time record, raising $22 million for United Way, benefiting 53 affiliates across 26 states. Of that total, $7.9 million will be distributed locally to United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County this year. Team Valero also contributed more than 139,000 volunteer hours to local organizations, helping make a difference in their communities, including more than 36,000 hours supporting charities right here in San Antonio. Valero employees take great pride in their culture of caring that supports the communities where they live and work.
The 2025 Valero Alamo Bowl matchup between the University of Southern California (USC) and Texas Christian University (TCU) was a great success, with an exciting TCU overtime win in front of more than 54,000 attendees and, at peak, 6.4 million TV viewers. Beyond the game, $1.28 million in scholarships were awarded to 183 local high school students last year. Since its inception, about $13 million in scholarships have been granted to more than 2,000 students as they begin their college journeys.
Mark your calendar for this year’s Valero Texas Open (VTO) and Benefit for Children (BFC). Last April, through the generosity of Valero’s business partners, donors and sponsors, the VTO and Valero BFC raised a record $25 million in the U.S., with an additional $1.3 million in the U.K. and Canada, where the company has refineries and host BFC events. As a result, more than 270 agencies, including 62 in the San Antonio area, received funding through the BFC, helping thousands of children access basic needs, including food or shelter, education and healthcare services.
For more than four decades, the strength of Valero has been its people and culture. The company’s achievements would not be possible without the dedication, hard work, expertise and generosity of the more than 9,900 employees who make up Team Valero.
These qualities define Valero, setting team members apart in business and in their communities, year after year.
